Peter Pan | To Neverland

Chapter 3

Mirell and her brothers are sound asleep in their beds, with Nana sleeping in her dog house. Nevaeh has left.

Mirell is sleeping with her head tilted to the side. She then moves it so her face is facing the ceiling. Suddenly, a hand reaches out and gently touches her chin before pulling away.

Mirell, having felt that, slowly opens her eyes. She sees a boy looking down at her. She gasps. Startled, the boy zooms back against the corner of the ceiling. Wait. The ceiling? Mirell immediately sits up.

Because of the noise the boy made, Nana wakes up and starts barking when she sees the boy. The boy turns his head, only to spot the dog and quickly flies out the open window. But Nana, being the fast and clever dog she is, manages to bite down on the boys shadow, stopping him.
Mirell falls out of her bed with a little yell, getting tangled in the blanket.

After a struggle, Nana is so close to bringing the boy back inside by his shadow when the window closes, snapping his shadow off. The boy gets away, but the shadow ends up against the wall behind Mirell.

The said girl finally manages to get out of the blanket, putting her head up right after the shadow hit the wall. She gasps and runs to the window, while Nana is on two paws, barking and trying to reach the shadow on the wall. Mirell looks out the window to the ground and then at Nana. She takes another quick look out the window before running to a drawer in the hallway, pulling it open and taking a candle from it. Michael groans sleepily, moving in his bed as Nana continues to bark at the shadow.

Meanwhile, Mirell has gone down the stairs and ran outside. She looks around, holding the candle up, trying to look for the boy who had obviously fallen after jumping out the window. Or did he?

Back inside, Nana chases the shadow out of the nursery as it flies along the ceiling and wall, into the drawer that Mirell left open earlier. Nana ends up closing the drawer as she jumps up to try and catch it. The shadow tries to get out, but the drawer is firmly closed.

Outside, Mirell looks up at the sky.

"But there was no sign of a body, for none had fallen."

She spots something, what appears to be a shooting star. Or is it?

-Time skip-

"Certainly she had been dreaming."

Mirell is sitting in class, practicing cross-stitching. The teacher walks by, holding her stick.

Mirell looks around, before putting her work down, taking her notebook and switching the page. The page reveals a drawing. There's a girl, laying in bed. Floating above her, is a boy. Mirell takes her pencil and starts to draw.

But then, a stick slams down on her notebook.

Mirell flinches and yelps. All the other girls turn towards her desk.

-Time skip-

Mirell is standing in front of her teacher's desk. She is holding Mirell's notebook, with it opened to the drawing.

"If this is you in your bed," she points at the girl in the bed, then moves her finger to the boy, "what is this?" she asks.

"A boy," Mirell answers.

The teacher looks at Mirell, looking angry.

"Miss Fulsom dispatched a letter of outrage to Mr. Darling.."

The teacher writes a letter to her father and gives it to a boy to have it delivered to him.

"..that set new standards of prudery, even for her."